Topic: Washington state sells 2 passenger ferries to Tanzania

By Susan Gilmore
Seattle Times staff reporter

The state has finally sold two of its discarded passenger ferries, the Kalama and the Skagit, to the African nation Tanzania.

They had operated between Seattle and Vashon Island until the state got out of the passenger-ferry business in 2009.

The two ferries had been sold to a boat broker in Port Coquitlam, B.C., which sold them to Tanzania. They will be put in service between the mainland of Tanzania and the Zanzibar archipelago. They were sold for $400,000, far below the $900,000 value the state said they were worth in December 2009.

Marta Coursey, spokeswoman for Washington State Ferries, said the two boats will be taken to Africa by cargo ship.

The state had initially hoped to sell the two 112-foot boats locally, but when that failed it placed them for auction on eBay, asking $300,000 each, with no success. The ferries were built in New Orleans and purchased in 1989 for $5 million.

Ferry historian Steve Pickens said the Kalama and the Skagit were the first two passenger boats the state built. They were supposed to go into service in 1989, but were tied up because there was no money to run them. Following the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, the two vessels were sent to San Francisco and served commuters crossing the bay while the city's bridges were repaired.

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By EMT

Ina maana zimepass test ya kufanya kazi bongo? Au kkiwa kazini mara tutasikia imezamisha abiria huko baharini. wamerekani walikuwa wanatafuta sehemu ya kuzidump naona wamepata

Dah! haya bana. hii ndiyo JF

By Mbaha

Be it government... be it private... Wabongo ndo zetu... We are always scavengers... wa mizoga.....

Sasa hizo $5mil mnazo za kununua mpya? Vumilia tufe vizuri.

By wimbi la mbele

PPA haukufuatwa hapa

hatukuona tangazo kwenye public domain

hatukuona hiyo pre qualification

hatukuona majina ya waliopitishwa

was it value for money?

PPRA wajieleze kuhusu hili ama sivyo we are going back to yale yaleee

wee chizi ppra na watu binafsi wapi na wapi??nani kasema zilikuwa mali ya serikali??leta ushahidi hapa kabla hujaanza kuuliza maswali yako ya kukariri!! hutofautiani na wazee wa yanga walosema watamwita cag akakague hesabu za yanga wakadhani uttoh anaishi labda tandale kwaiyo kila mtu anamwita mwita tuu!!

By Noah Gondwe

tatizo ni kwa muuzaji o
kwa aliyenunua ambaye anataka ki2 cha bei cheeee, we umeona wapi meli
kama ile ikauzwa kwa $ 4000000?

na hiyo ni bei ya mbili siyo moja.

Kama amenunua mtu binafsi au kampuni binafsi, swala la PPRA halipo tena

nimeamini Jf kuna great thinkers na watabiri pia
Tnanzania imekuwa nchi ya kununua vitu used hata vijiko used nimevikuta kariakoo
ndege pia tunaagiza used mda sio mrefu utasikia watanzania wanateketea katika ndege hizi
kama 540,boeing ya ATC nk. hii ni hatari sana

By Ramos

Dah! haya bana. hii ndiyo JF

By EMT

Ndio haya haya. Zitaletwa ferries chakavu hapa zikiua tunaambiwa zilikuwa mpya wakati tayri zimeshaoza na wamarekani hawazitaki tena. Kitu imewekwa mpaka ebay hakuna aliyenunua.

Dah! Kumbe haya yalishasemwa tangu mwaka mmoja uliopita!!!!??? Kweli JF ni KIONA MBALI..NIMEIKUBALI..!!!

By rfjt

Dah! Kumbe haya yalishasemwa tangu mwaka mmoja uliopita!!!!??? Kweli JF ni KIONA MBALI..NIMEIKUBALI..!!!

Jf ni zaidi ya uijuavyo mkuu... Watu walihoji toka 2011 ununuzi wa hii meli ...

Nashangaa kuna mbunge anasimama na kudai mtandao ufungwe una kashifu viongozi

By EMT

Mkuu utashangaa pamoja problems zote ambazo zimekuwa identified kwenye hizi ferries, TBS watazipitisha.

Emt maneno yako yametimia maskini wangesikiliza ushauri wako

By rfjt

Dah! Kumbe haya yalishasemwa
tangu mwaka mmoja uliopita!!!!??? Kweli JF ni KIONA
MBALI..NIMEIKUBALI..!!!

ni swala la logic & putting 2 & 2 together to get 4. hakuna mazingaombwe hapo!

Hii si ndio ile iliyozama ikielekea Pemba?.....ndio yenyewe hii.

Huyo mbunge ana taahira ya ubongo!!....sio yule wa jimbo la Mtera kweli?

Used, Used ,Used!!!!all the time!!
Used Cars
Used Cares
Used Time
Used Materials
Used Vessels
Used Education
Used Thinking
Used......Used................ .....Used..........Used Used!!!

Nahisi kutapika.....

By EMT

Ina maana zimepass test ya kufanya kazi bongo? Au kkiwa kazini mara tutasikia imezamisha abiria huko baharini. wamerekani walikuwa wanatafuta sehemu ya kuzidump naona wamepata

et prediction. c

EMT, utabiri / hisia zako zilitimia tarehe 18 July mchana kwa kuzama kwa MV kagat na kuua watu 80 plus. Tanzania ni zaidi ya tuijuavyo!!!

PPRA inawahusu nini. Hii si ilinunuliwa na watu binafsi?

vitu vya muhimu kwa wananchi mnanunua chakavu... Laki ni vx znakuja mpyaa......